What Updates will Give you the Best ROI on a House?

When you fix up a house it is important you spend your money where it will add the most value. As an investor I do not want to make repairs that will cost me more than the value they will add to the home. If a new kitchen will add $5,000 to the selling price, but will cost $10,000 to put in, I do not want to replace the kitchen. People who live in their homes may have a different strategy because they really want a new kitchen, and know they will be living in the home for another 20

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10 of the Strangest Moments in Golf History

Here are a few fun golf videos through the years to make you laugh and brighten up your day. The time a cheeky kangaroo invades an Australian golf course and had the audacity to start... Read more

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How to Maintain a House

There is a lot to consider when buying a home. You need to learn the house buying process, learn how to get a loan, learn how to find a good deal, and possibly fix up the home. Fixing up and updating your home is one thing, but you also need to maintain it so it stays in great shape. One of the best ways to get a great deal on a home is to find houses that have been neglected. You don’t want your house to become one that turns into a great deal for someone else, because it was

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Podcast 85 Finding Great Rental Markets with Dennis Cisterna from Investability

On this episode of the InvestFourMore Podcast I interview Dennis Cisterna who is the chief revenue officer of Investability. Dennis also helped found two of the largest rental property lending companies in the country, has flipped houses, owns rentals, has built new houses, and has a history in investment banking. Dennis knows a lot about real estate, and we talk about many subjects on this show. We go over what he thinks about the current housing market, and if there will be another crash. We talk about hedge funds and how their investment into single family rentals has worked out so

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UV: An Ultraviolet LED Light from TJOKEEFE

TJOKEEFE kills it with graphic, angular furniture and objects and the latest release, UV, is a bold triangular light sculpture that hangs on a flat surface or in a corner. A flexible, woven nylon thread is what creates the triangular composition when it’s suspended on the wall. With the ultraviolet LEDs embedded in the powder-coated aluminum bar, the thread becomes its own light source as the ultraviolet light projects onto it, creating the ethereal red and purple, triangular glow.

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Juniper & Lemon Curd: A short story

Christoffer Relander’s Jarred & Displaced Finnish Landscapes

With memories of his childhood on his mind, Finnish photographer Christoffer Relander spent the better part of a year photographing the place where he grew up, the Finnish countryside. Instead of getting the results in Photoshop, he experimented with analog multiple exposures in-camera while shooting with medium format film. It appears that he photographs glass jars painted black and layers that negative with a landscape negative (hence the analog double exposure) to result in haunting black and white images called Jarred & Displaced. It’s almost like he’s capturing the landscape’s soul in a jar (which makes me think of the song ‘Soul in a Jar‘ by The Veldt). Once the image is achieved, he prints museum quality pigment prints that he sells in limited editions.

Anders Lönnfeldt captured the process here:

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I had to Evict the Tenants in Rental Property 10 and they had Bed Bugs!

We had to evict some tenants recently in rental property number 10. The property is in a very small town, is older, and smaller than my other rentals, but was an awesome deal. I bought it for just over $99,000 in 2014 and rented it for $1,250 a month until the end of 2016. I only had to spend $4,000 to repair the house after I bought it, and I plan to sell this property for close to $200,000. However, the tenants did a great job of trashing the house, and also managed to get bed bugs twice!  How did

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New Rules of Golf Etiquette

Been a while since you checked up on the do’s and don’ts of the game for the 21st century? We’ll do our best to get you up to date. Golf is unique in that it... Read more

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How Long does it take to Sell a House?

The time it takes to sell a house can vary greatly depending on how you sell it and who you sell it to. A quick cash closing can take as little as 10 days, but when a loan is involved the selling process can take 45 days or longer. That is just the time it takes to sell the house after a contract has been accepted. A home owner must also get the home ready to market, list the home for sale, and find a buyer willing to pay the right price. The time it takes to sell a house

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An Art Collection Borne From Social Media

Sydney-based artist Kate Banazi and Madrid-based artist Diego Berjon have never met. Yet, they have undertaken an extremely intimate and personal journey together to create collaborative art. They first met on Instagram, and by communicating only through email and letters, Kate and Diego have worked together to create a set of graphic art pieces that represent the forming and solidifying of a budding collaboration.

All art is silkscreen and acrylic, ink or iron oxide on paper. The art exemplifies the quest for human connection and trust, but also about sharing things that are personal and unique. Both were pushed out of their comfort zone by letting another work on what is typically a singular process. Much like growing up with a sibling, the process helped both find maturity, which in turn, brought liberation and freedom.

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Morphogenesis: An Otherworldly Virtual Reality Experience

Morphogenesis – a  virtual reality art installation touring the globe – presents visitors with an aural and visual experience representing the natural phenomena of emergent forms evolving into self-organized systems. San Francisco artists and Fulbright Scholars Can Buyukberber and Yagmur Uyanik describe their creation Morphogenesis as “an audiovisual journey through different planes of the digital and physical universe”. Watch and decide for yourself:

The word “morphogenesis” is used scientifically to describe the biological process in which an organism develops from its embryonic state into one with distinct and characteristic features. And as such, the artists turned to hi-definition display and VR technology to turn the conceptual into the experiential. Morphogenesis utilizes an immersive half-dome display with an accompanying virtual reality piece using the Samsung Gear VR headset to project a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns that eventually coalesce into immersive spaces of increasingly complex forms.

Visual content details from 8K wide screening.

A lasercut geodesic dome structure built for spherical content testing.

The night of June 3rd, Immersion Experience Symposium 2016, Montreal, Canada. Premiere of “Morphogenesis” at SAT’s dome “Satosphere”, the very first immersive modular theatre, dedicated to artistic creation. Photo by SebastienRoy.ca

Signal Light Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, Photo by Jan Knot

In its entirety, the audio-visual artwork emphasizes the “systemic interconnectedness over space and time of all natural dynamics and how these dynamics result to create novelty in micro and macro scales”. As any good piece of artwork, one can also simply enjoy the sensational bombardment of the senses Morphogenesis presents without an appreciation or understanding of its conceptual roots, evolving into an experience unique to each visitor.

“Nonspaces” Group Exhibition at Akbank Sanat, Istanbul. Curated by Ceren Arkman, Irmak Arkman

Samsung Gear VR headset experience; “Nonspaces” Group Exhibition at Akbank Sanat, Istanbul. Curated by Ceren Arkman, Irmak Arkman

Special 8K screening at MUSE Event Series, The Village, San Francisco

Left, Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition at SOMArts, San Francisco. Right, “Subsequence” Group Exhibition at Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, Photo by Marco David

A still from Morphogenesis visual content.

Special 8K screening at MUSE Event Series, The Village, San Francisco

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